Sufficient concern with the drama and colorful personalities in the history of oil to capture the interest of the general public.

is a major work in the field, replete with enough insight to satisfy the scholar and Library Journal, for example, that The Prize, 'written by one of the foremost U.S. Reading for students of the history of petroleum. The Prize is often cited as essential background Now out of print in hardcover, The Prize was published in a paperback edition in December 1992 (according toīarnes and Noble) or January 1993 (according to ) (ISBN 0671799320) that remains in print. The oil industry, of which the author is, in a way, a part. 220) some critics, though, consider the book too sympathetic to the perspective of 'definitive' history of the oil industry, even its 'bible' (Matthew Yeomans, Oil: Anatomy of an Industry [New York & In the United States and won a Pulitzer Prize.

Zeitgeist the book became a number-one bestseller Historical centrality of what its subtitle calls 'the epic quest for oil, money, and power' was in tune with the The Prize benefited from extraordinary timing: published in October 1990, two months after the invasion of Kuwait ordered by Saddam Hussein and three months before the U.S.-led coalition unleashed the Gulf War to oust Iraqi troops from that country, the book's theme of the Yergin's 800-page history of the global oil industry from the 1850s throughġ990.

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